Asus will be the 1st to include that the established of its CPU board for Intel's Socket 1156 CPUs fell short of perfection, appropriating rivals Gigabyte and MSI to become an early foothold in the market. Keen to avoid a repetition performance with the newer Socket 1155 'Sandy Bridge' chipsets, Asus has rolled out a comprehensive line-up of P67 and H67 boards for the establish admitting this, the P8P67 Deluxe, a board that sits near the lead of Asus' P67 hierarchy.

Like all of Asus' newly P67 and H67 boards, admitting its budget Micro-ATX sibling (reviewed here), the P8P67 Deluxe characteristics an 'EFI' install, changing users to exchange settings utilizing their mouse.

As well as constituting far more intuitive to utilize than a text-based BIOS, EFI appropriates for quicker booting times and changes defend for repels of more prominent than 2TB. It also appears much improve and eventually does off with the ugly DOS-style text that has been adorning BIOS menus because time began.

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At a penny below £200 admitting VAT, this board is far from cheap - but it does have all of the high-end characteristics you'd anticipate, admitting SLI and CrossFire support, dual Gigabit communicating controllers, FireWire and USB 3.0.

The board is completed in the producer now-familiar blue and black livery, and has very substantial heat sinks over its processor voltage circuitry. This utilizes an industry contributing 16+2 digital power phase plan, which should help the board to accomplish outstanding overclocking solutions and more stability below load.